2025 Spring Training: Athletics Announce Seven Roster Moves

The Athletics have reassigned seven non-roster invitees to their minor league camp, including right-handed pitchers Mason Barnett, Anthony Maldonado and Chen Zhuang, left-handed pitchers CD Pelham and Domingo Robles, and catchers Lyle Lin and Daniel Susac.

The A’s now have 56 players in camp, which includes 40 players on the 40-man roster and 16 non-roster invitees.  The breakdown includes 28 pitchers, four catchers, 13 infielders and 11 outfielders.

Here is an updated look at the Athletics’ roster as we move three weeks away from Opening Day:

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The Athletics signed manager Mark Kotsay to a contract extension through the 2028 season with a team option for 2029.

Financial terms for the deal, announced Monday, were not disclosed.

Kotsay, 49, has a 179-307 record in three seasons at the helm of the A’s, but there is more to his time as manager than his record. Kotsay, who played four of his 17 big league seasons for the A’s, has shepherded them through stormy weather, watching top talent traded away in a salary dump and leading the players through an emotional final season in Oakland as ownership decided to pull up stakes and move to Las Vegas.

The Athletics will play this season in a minor-league ballpark in Sacramento as they await construction of their new stadium on the Strip in Las Vegas, planned for 2028.

The A’s finished 69-93 in 2024, in fourth place in the American League West. The posted a 39-37 mark over the final 76 games.

And there is hope for 2025. After years of sending established players out of town, the A’s signed two-time All-Star pitcher Luis Severino and infielder Gio Urshela and traded for left-hander Jeffrey Springs this offseason as the rebuild begins.

“In ’22, my first experience managing was to tell Matt Olson he had been traded, which was the direction of the ballclub,” Kotsay recalled at an informal gathering with reporters in Sacramento last month. “Now, season four is to welcome Luis Severino, who has been given the largest free agent contract in [franchise] history, which is completely opposite. So I couldn’t be more excited about going into camp.”

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A’s reward manager Mark Kotsay with extension through 2028

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